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...EVENING of May 15, 1970, an audience still spellbound by the labyrinthine connections of the Authentic Unconscious," the last of Lionel Trilling's Charles Eliot Norton lectures, left Lowell Lecture Hall to find streets barricaded with paddy wagons and helmeted riot troops, the Square ablaze with bonfires and theatrical hysteria. Whiffs of pungent tear gas later penetrated even the inner recesses of Adams House where guests at a reception for the Trillings sheepishly held wetted towels to their noses. That spark set off a Spring of agitation and activist preoccupations that left many a subtler or less relevant issue...
When I speak on stage they riot in the balcony...
...congressional subcommittee is currently investigating the Kitty Hawk riot, along with racial outbreaks on the carrier Constellation and the oiler Hassayampa, to determine whether or not such problems stem from a lack of discipline in the Navy. Meanwhile, the manner in which the Kitty Hawk conducts its courts-martial will also be watched carefully. A biracial Pentagon task-force report on military justice, released last week by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, charged that there was a definite pattern of discrimination against blacks in the meting out of punishment. The report gave substance to black sailors' claims that recent...
...superintendent need only state that he "believed" an accused person to be an I.R.A. member. This statement alone could constitute grounds leading to imprisonment of up to five years. The Dáil's gates were defended against hostile demonstrators by some 2,000 police and troops in riot formation as debate got under way. Inside Parliament, Lynch threatened to go to the country on a law-and-order ticket if the legislation should be defeated. But when news of Dublin's bombings struck, the parliamentary opposition crumbled quickly, averting a crisis. Of two opposition parties, labor voted...
...bungles the interview. Di Noi requires a lawyer. The one he chooses is so incompetent that for another client, one of Di Noi's fellow prisoners, he draws a severe sentence on a minor charge, driving the prisoner to suicide. After this and accidental implication in a prison riot, Di Noi slips into despair and madness...